Fundamental Truth

The CEO of Mozilla resigned for Thinking ‘Incorrectly’

In 2008, Brendan Eich donated $1,000 to support California Proposition 8. A proposal to keep marriage in California between only a man and a woman. Proposition 8 passed as most Californians agreed with Brendan Eich. They did not want to change law, tradition and custom. The left has determined that the people of California are hate-filled people. And liberal judges have since overruled the will of the people of California.

So who is Brendan Eich? Until recently he was the CEO of Mozilla. The company that puts out the internet browser Firefox. He rose to CEO this year. He cofounded Mozilla Foundation in 1998. So he’s been there for awhile. And did good work. To rise to CEO you have to be pretty darn good. And you can’t be a monster. For if you are a monster the odds are slim of becoming CEO. For it tends to garner bad press.

Well, as it turns out, exercising your free speech can make you a monster. A hate-filled individual. Which the left said he was. Because of this $1,000 donation. Just because he thought like the majority of all Californians. That marriage should be between a man and a woman. And because he did the left demanded his resignation for daring not to think ‘correctly’ like them. So he did. He resigned for thinking ‘incorrectly’.

Conservatives were not Welcomed at a Feminist Conference on Inclusivity

This is not the only ‘thought crime’ the left has leveled at someone. For anyone that dares to think differently from them they call a thought criminal. And do everything in their power to silence them. For the ‘tolerant’ left is very intolerant of anyone that thinks differently from them. Because the left hates dissenting views. Especially those of conservatives. As there are about two conservatives for every liberal they face a lot of dissenting views. So they have a lot of ‘thought crime’ to police.

Universities are mostly liberal these days. And whenever a conservative is invited to speak the thought police come out. They protest. They heckle. They throw pies. Just ask Ann Coulter. Even when conservatives are invited back to their alma maters to give a commencement speech the thought police turn out to keep them from speaking. Just ask Dr. Ben Carson. Or Condoleezza Rice.

Feminists on university campuses are particularly intolerant to other points of view. Even at a feminist conference about inclusivity. Everyone was welcomed. Except conservative women. In fact, the feminists at this conference identified a woman as being a conservative. Telling the students gathering there that they shouldn’t talk to her. Because conservatives were not welcomed at this conference on inclusivity. Just ask Katherine Timpf.

It’s hard to Pass your Agenda when you’re Outnumbered Two to One

Liberals have long wanted to revive the fairness doctrine. For the one area they can’t control is talk radio. And they don’t like what they’re saying on talk radio. So they want to shut them up. To balance the content broadcasted over the public airwaves. As determined by the Federal Communications Commission. Which could, of course, find that 3 hours of Rush Limbaugh a day is not balanced. And require that he give up an hour or two of his time for an opposing viewpoint. Hence the moniker the ‘Hush Rush Bill‘.

The left has been warning us about the calamity of global warming for the last three decades or so. Telling us if we don’t act now the world will end within the decade. But the people aren’t quaking with fear. Some are even debunking their ‘science’. With real science. Something the left does not like. And they want to do something about. They want to shut them up. Some even want to jail them.

Conservatives don’t do this. They don’t call for boycotts or resignations when people exercise their right to free speech. They don’t throw pies at people. They don’t pressure universities to shut down debate by preventing someone from speaking that disagrees with them. They don’t warn young women that someone ‘thinks wrong’. That they shouldn’t talk to ‘wrong thinkers’. They don’t try to balance the content in the liberal-dominated media. And they don’t put politics over science. Liberals do. But conservatives don’t.

There have been some in history that put politics above everything else. Just like liberals do. People who punished those who said the wrong things. And punished those for thinking wrong. They had state censorship. Propaganda. And jail for those who weren’t like them. Or worse. Things the left would love to do to stifle all debate. Because it’s hard to pass your agenda when you’re outnumbered two to one. So who are these people from history? Nazis. And communists. Yes, liberals are about as open-minded and tolerant as Nazis and communists were.

Week in Review

The American left has been critical of free speech that they don’t agree with. Nancy Pelosi has stated she would like to bring back the Fairness Doctrine (aka the Hush Rush Bill). Forcing radio stations who carried conservative talk shows like the Rush Limbaugh show to carry equal programming of the opposite viewpoint. For try as they might liberals have no Rush Limbaugh of their own. So if they can’t beat them they would like a law to encourage broadcasters to drop these conservative talk shows. As they probably would if they were forced to carry an equal amount of programming of the opposite viewpoint. For it would be easier just not to carry controversial programming.

And then there’s net neutrality. Which is kind of like the Fairness Doctrine for the Internet. But more complex. And more murky. The left likes the idea of enforcing net neutrality. Especially if they could shut down conservative websites they didn’t like. For that would make it harder to fund raise. And you wouldn’t have to use the IRS to illegally impede conservative fundraising. Like they did with Tea Party groups in the 2012 election. Getting caught in that was just a pain in the ass for the Democrats. And they would love to be able to do the same thing without anyone throwing the Rule of Law in their face.

The rollout of Obamacare was not all that great. And the White House didn’t like what they were hearing in the media. So they called in their friends in the liberal media. And said you’re killing us. Please don’t say these things anymore. And, instead, say these talking points. Lie for us. Just help us get these idiots (the people losing their health insurance because of Obamacare) off of our backs. It was an ‘off the record’ meeting so we don’t know exactly what they said. But this was probably the gist. A return to that recurring theme of theirs. Trying to censor bad things being said about them. Using these sneaky ways because they just can’t do this (see Vietnam: Criticize government on social media and go to jail by Dara Kerr posted 11/29/2013 on CNET).

Vietnam is joining the ranks of Iran, Saudi Arabia, and China, as being known as a country that censors its citizens on social media.

The government introduced a new law this week that fines people $4,740 for posting comments critical of the government on social-networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, according to Reuters. Some people could also face extensive prison terms.

While the law is unclear about what kind of speech sparks government censorship, it does say that “propaganda against the state” and “reactionary ideology” would elicit fines.

Vietnam’s communist government has increasingly censored its citizens’ free speech over the past few years. According to Reuters, arrests and convictions for criticizing the government online have skyrocketed the last four years…

In a recent Global Transparency Report, Google said that it has seen an alarming incidence in government requests to gather information on their citizens. Some of the top offending countries in Google’s report include the US, India, and Germany.

You know the Obama administration would love to do this. You should at least not be surprised if they did. For they are spying on us. And collecting information on us. Using the IRS to silence the opposition. Lying to us, telling us a YouTube video killed our ambassador and three other Americans in Benghazi. Something they are tired hearing about. And no doubt envy Iran, Saudi Arabia, and China for being able to do what they want to do but can’t. Having the power to take away our free speech.

When an oppressive, totalitarian regime seizes power, they shut down the radio and television stations. It’s at the top of their ‘to do’ list. Because it’s the fastest media. Then they turn to the newspapers. Once they control the content they open for business again. We call it censorship. The people only hear what they want the people to hear. And they kill/imprison those who persist in trying to distribute anything other than the state’s propaganda.

When you control the media, you can tell any lie. You can report the state has increased food protection while millions die from famine. You can report the great economic success of the Five Year Plan while people wait in lines for hours to get their rations of soap and toilet paper. You can report the success of your Keynesian economic policies while record numbers of people go unemployed. If you have control of the media you can tell any lie. And prevent the telling of any truth.

When government pursues policies that are not popular, the telling of lies and the controlling of truths becomes policy. Enter the Fairness Doctrine. JFK used it to muzzle the Right when they debated the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. LBJ used it to muzzle conservative radio stations (who were attacking his Great Society policies, not the Vietnam War). Nixon tried to use it to silence his enemies (it doesn’t work, though, when your enemies are liberal media outlets).

Ronald Reagan, a supporter of First Amendment rights, revoked the doctrine during his administration. And the Left has been trying to bring it back ever since. (They even want to extend it to the Internet – another medium the Left does not control. But that’s another story for another time.)

FAIR IS NOT FAIR

The liberals say it’s not fair that a Rush Limbaugh can go on the air for 3 hours a day 5 days a week without an opposing viewpoint to ‘balance’ his views. Bill Clinton said it’s not fair because there is no ‘truth detector’ to separate fact from fiction (he said that before he was impeached for perjury). When they talk about ‘fairness’ it’s code for censorship. What they want is to silence these alternate viewpoints.

If you want to talk about being fair, let’s be fair. Do conservatives have an unfair advantage in media? The Culture and Media Institute (a Division of the Media Research Center) published a special report for the Media Research Center titled Unmasking the Myths Behind the Fairness Doctrine. It’s 30 pages but well worth your time in reading it. On page 5 of this report they cite audience reach and circulation statistics for the top 5 sources of information liberals and conservatives use:

When you look at these numbers, you see a dominance of liberal sources. In fact, talk radio is the only source in the list where conservatives make up a larger percentage of the audience than liberals. And yet talk radio is the only source that liberals cite as needing a fairness doctrine. What does that tell you? The only bias that exists in the media is against conservatives.

FOLLOW THE MONEY

Air America, the all-liberal national radio network (now there’s fairness), went belly up. Chapter 7 (liquidation). They tried Chapter 11 (reorganization) earlier but the reorganized business couldn’t make any money either. By contrast, Rush Limbaugh has been on the air since the late 1980s. And, according to him, he has never had a down year or had to lay off a single employee. Why?

Radio is free. To us. The listeners. Others pay so we can listen free. Advertisers. Do they do this out of altruism? No. They do it out of greed. They advertise to increase their sales revenue. It’s a win-win. They promote their products and services. We listen for free. And broadcasters make enough money to cover their bills and earn a profit. (Well, I guess that’s more of a win-win-win. There’re three winners. But I belabor the point.) It’s really a simple formula. There’s only one catch. Advertisers only want to advertise where people are actually listening.

And that was the problem with Air America. No one was listening. Weak ratings equal weak advertising sales. Liberals can exist in the realm of National Public Radio (publicly funded no matter how few people listen), but if their revenue is tied to their popularity, they’re screwed.

LIKE READING BOOKS

FOX paired liberal Alan Colmes with conservative Sean Hannity on Hannity and Colmes. The show had a successful run. Sean Hannity still has that timeslot. Alone. As well as the #2 radio program behind Rush Limbaugh. Colmes has not gone on to such bigger or better things.

Colmes blamed the failure of Air America on unfair treatment. The conservatives got the best stations and time slots. So Air America never had a chance. Despite having big on-air talent like Al Franken and Janeane Garofalo. But it wasn’t unfair treatment that favored conservatives. It was advertising revenue that favored conservatives. If the liberals could have delivered the ratings conservatives did, they’d be on the best stations in the best time slots. But they couldn’t. So they weren’t.

Liberals like to be entertained. They’ll tune into SNL and The Daily Show. For they love a good personal attack on a conservative. They’ll watch the network news that is full of entertainment news. They’ll buy The New York Times and read the Arts section. They’ll tune in and listen to the shock jocks on FM and satellite radio. But they don’t like thinking about serious issues. To them listening to talk radio is like reading a book. And where’s the fun in that?

FARTS ARE FUNNY

Liberal talk radio will never have the numbers conservative talk radio has. Not in a center-right country. The intelligentsia (liberals in the media, college professors, etc.) is a very small minority. The other liberals are just children who haven’t grown up yet. And how many children do you know that eat their vegetables? Wash behind their ears? Read a book? Or engage in deep, philosophical thought? I don’t know any. The kids I know think fart jokes are funny. Think about that the next time someone laughs at a fart joke on TV. I’ll bet you it’s a child that’s laughing. Or a liberal.